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Chicheng Ma (HKU) uses Matteo Ricci’s networks among Chinese officials as an instrument to assess the long-term impact of missionary activity on the intensity of foreign trade in later centuries, in a paper w Zhiwu Chen & Xinhao Li at the 2024 Asia-Pacific Eco & Bus His meeting in Honolulu
https://sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/2024apebhconference/home
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